25 things you didn’t know when you voted for UKIP

20 … and with the Northern League …
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Alastair Harper (former UKIP parliamentary candidate in Dunfermline West at the
2001 general election) was a co-founder in 1958 and leading activist in the Northern
League, whose aim was to provide a point of contact for members of fascist and
racist groups across Western Europe, promoting pan-Nordicism, anti-Semitism and
biologically determinist racism. The League’s emblem is a swastika-type ‘tryfoss’
rune.
21 … and with the Conservative Monday Club
Graham Webster-Gardiner (UKIP parliamentary candidate in Epsom and Ewell at
the 2001 general election and former UKIP NEC member, 2001-02) was a leading
figure in the far-Right, anti-immigration Conservative Monday Club.
22 Their leaders deny the Holocaust
Alistair McConnachie (UKIP’s then Organiser in Scotland) was suspended from
UKIP’s NEC for a year in February 2001 after he questioned the extent of the
Holocaust. 69
23 They think our social security system undermines society
The UKIP European elections manifesto has this to say about social security: “A
further unfortunate result of expanding state provision and other governmental
policies has been to undermine the family as the basic stable unit of society”. 70
24 They use dirty tricks to try to fix debates
When Robert Kilroy-Silk was due to appear on BBC 1’s Question Time as a UKIP
candidate for the 2004 European elections, UKIP’s campaign office e-mailed its
supporters with this request: “We urgently need articulate members to be in the
audience for the above event. BUT DON’T LET ON YOU’RE UKIP!” 71
25 They don’t believe in the popular mandate
The three UKIP MEPs in May 2004 were the only UK MEPs to vote against allowing
ten new countries to join the EU – even though the countries in question had voted
overwhelmingly to join the European Union in 2004 (nine in referenda and the
tenth by parliamentary vote)! In response, UKIP founder Dr Alan Sked wrote:
“Despite the democratically expressed desires of the east European and Baltic
peoples in referendums to join the EU, UKIP MEPs still voted against enlargement,
a right all these people had under the Treaty of Rome”. 72
69 The Scotsman, 27 March 2000.
70 UKIP manifesto for the 2004 European elections.
71 London Evening Standard, 18 May 2004.
72 The Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2004.